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Las Huérfanas (Novela Biográfica)
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I am Melba, the youngest of four sisters. I am the result of an impossible love between two worlds, two extraordinary beings, two pathologies. The Orphans is an excavation in the memory of the monumental figure that was my mother Myriam De Nogales, a woman unattainable in her skills and talents, passionate, caustic, wounded and wounding, brilliant. Eleven years before having me, my mother threw herself out of a window. She told me this when I got my first period, like a gruesome ritual welcoming puberty. This book is also an inquiry into family ties, into the way we create female identity, as well as into the specter of the patriarchal figure in the construction of our inner universe. This is how I celebrate the passing through the earth of all my dead, especially my mother, the dead woman who lives most within me. I also celebrate my cousin, Myriam De Nogales, my mother's namesake and niece, for whom suicide was more than an attempt. To the readers of this novel, I wish that this exorcism of the soul, this act of psychomagic, this exploration of the ghosts that inhabit us, brings you the consolation that it brought me. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION I am Melba, the youngest of four sisters. I am the result of an impossible love between two worlds, two extraordinary beings, two pathologies. Las Huérfanas (The Orphans) is an excavation into the memory of the monumental character that was my mother: Myriam De Nogales, an unattainable woman in her skills and talents, passionate, caustic, wounded and wounding, brilliant. Eleven years before having me, my mother jumped out of a window. She told me this when I got my first period, as a large ritual of welcoming me into puberty. This book is also an investigation into family ties, the way we create female identity, as well as the spectrum of the patriarchal figure in the construction of our inner universe. This is how I celebrate the passage through the earth of all my deceased, especially my mother, the deceased who lives the most in me. I also celebrate my cousin, Myriam De Nogales, my mother's namesake and niece, for whom suicide was more than an attempt. To the readers of this novel, I hope this exorcism of the soul, this act of psychomagic, this exploration of the ghosts that inhabit us, brings you the solace it brought me
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